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Failures to disagre...
Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development
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- Norberg, Jon, 1969- (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik
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- Blenckner, Thorsten (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- Cornell, Sarah E. (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Petchey, Owen L. (author)
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Hillebrand, Helmut (author)
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- 2022-02-25
- 2022
- English.
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In: Ecology Letters. - : Wiley. - 1461-023X .- 1461-0248. ; 25:5, s. 1075-1093
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Abstract
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- While environmental science, and ecology in particular, is working to provide better understanding to base sustainable decisions on, the way scientific understanding is developed can at times be detrimental to this cause. Locked-in debates are often unnecessarily polarised and can compromise any common goals of the opposing camps. The present paper is inspired by a resolved debate from an unrelated field of psychology where Nobel laureate David Kahneman and Garry Klein turned what seemed to be a locked-in debate into a constructive process for their fields. The present paper is also motivated by previous discourses regarding the role of thresholds in natural systems for management and governance, but its scope of analysis targets the scientific process within complex social-ecological systems in general. We identified four features of environmental science that appear to predispose for locked-in debates: (1) The strongly context-dependent behaviour of ecological systems. (2) The dominant role of single hypothesis testing. (3) The high prominence given to theory demonstration compared investigation. (4) The effect of urgent demands to inform and steer policy. This fertile ground is further cultivated by human psychological aspects as well as the structure of funding and publication systems.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- biodiversity-ecosystem functioning
- context-dependent
- critical transitions
- locked-in
- policy making
- science funding agency
- scientific method
- thresholds
- tipping points
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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